topic Re: Moving printers to other nodes in Operating System - HP-UX

Moving printers to other nodes

Mike_21 — Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:47:10 GMT

I have to move about 50+ printer q's to another node, I think they were added using Jetadmin or something, is there a simple way to move them without manually re-creating??????

Thanks

Re: Moving printers to other nodes

Craig Rants — Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:58:47 GMT

/etc/lp/member contains info on all the configured queues on the box. I have never tried to use that info to move all my printers, but that would be a good place to start.

GL,
C

Re: Moving printers to other nodes

Steve Steel — Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:02:15 GMT

Hi

Install the jetadmin on the other node then
use sam to export on 1 machine and import on the other.The save is in /var/sam/lp

It is in printer plotters

LP spooler

save restore spooler config

Overview of Spooler Configuration Window ^
| The Save/Restore Spooler Configuration window is one of several that
| are related to managing Printing and Plotting devices. This window is |
| used specifically to save the current spooler configuration and restore |
| it. To change to other printers/plotters subareas, use the [List] menu. |
| . |
| |
| The Save/Restore Spooler Configuration window displays a list of all |
| printers and plotters and classes that existed when the last save was |
| done. See Interpreting the Spooler Configuration List for more |
| information about this list. |
| Use This Window To:

* Save the current spooler configuration and related information ^
| about printers, plotters, and device classes. (SAM automatically |
| saves the current configuration each time it is changed when you |
| use SAM to make the changes.) No information about print requests
| is preserved. |
| |
| * Restore the previously saved spooler configuration. This is usually |
| in response to the spooler becoming corrupt, and is an easy way to |
| recreate the most recently saved configuration. Any pending jobs |
| are lost because the current queues are destroyed during |
| restoration. |
|

Steve Steel

Re: Moving printers to other nodes

Tommy Brown — Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:02:41 GMT

The "Old" Jetadmin had a transferqueue utility that allowed this to be a fairly simple task. I am not sure, because I havenot tried it, but maybe you could use the SAM save and restore printer configuration feature to move your printer definitions..
TOmmy

Re: Moving printers to other nodes

Sanjay_6 — Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:02:53 GMT

Hi Mike,

Try these two links,

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=e705df5c1589dab9b2/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000025411294

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=e705df5c1589dab9b2/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000055877503

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: Moving printers to other nodes

Deshpande Prashant — Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:05:35 GMT

HI
Writing a simple script might ease out your work.

#lpstat -p |grep printer |awk '{print $2}' >PRINTER_LIST
Will list all your printers on existing system.
As long as you have these printers with their ip defined in /etc/hosts or in NIS, you can use addqueue command to create printers of remote system.
#addqueue -h -q

To create printers listed in "PRINTER_LIST" file created on old host,
for i in `cat PRINTER_LIST`
{
addqueue -h -q $i
}

HTH
Thanks.
Prashant.